PROSUB delegation visits NUCLEP to monitor the development project of the reactor prototype of the first Brazilian nuclear submarine

A delegation from PROSUB (Navy Submarine Development Program) visited the NUCLEP facilities on June 23 to monitor the manufacturing work of the nuclear reactor prototype that is being developed at the Navy Technological Center in São Paulo for AMAZUL. According to Petrobras Natural Gas price should fall in August

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The project is called LABGENE (Nucleoelectric Power Generation Laboratory) and was conceived as a prototype, on land and in full scale, of the propulsion systems that will be installed on the submarine.

The reactor is in the process of manufacturing, assembling and supplying the vessel (cylinder) and internal containment structures, in addition to the primary shielding tank.

NUCLEP's LABGENE works by allowing safe simulation, that is, before its installation in the nuclear-powered submarine, the operation of the reactor and the various electronic systems integrated therein.

The delegation was received by the company's president, C.Alte. (RM-1) Carlos Henrique Silva Seixas, and the Industrial directors, CMG/EN Affonso Alves, and Commercial directors, Nicola Mirto Neto.

The PROSUB entourage was formed by: director of the Technological Center of the São Paulo Navy (CTMSP), V.Alte Noriaki Wada, Director of Nuclear Development of the Navy, V.Alte (EN) Guilherme Dionizio Alves, General Coordinator of the Submarine Development Program with Nuclear Propulsion, V.Alte (RM1/ EN) Sydney dos Santos Neves, the Director of the Submarine Development Center, C.Alte Flávio Antoun Netto, the Manager of the Modular Submarine Undertaking, C. Adm. Celso Mizutani Koga, and the Manager of the Modular Enterprise for Obtaining Naval Industrial Infrastructure in Itaguaí, C. Adm. José Gentile.

After visiting the company's factory floor, they attended a presentation by the Industrial Directorate of NUCLEP, which detailed the stages and progress for the delivery of Block 40 to AMAZUL (Blue Amazon Defense Technologies SA).